Bang Issue08

BANC: MIX THOSE MEDIA AND PRESS THE FAST FORWARD!

★ TV!

STAR TREK:

Still boldly going?

FILMS:

Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2,
Pirates

ALBUMS:

Spitting Image, Ultravox,

Billy Idol

SOFTWARE:

Uridium, BIG 4. Sun Star. Dr
What, Galvan

SEGA SYSTEM:

The return ot the console

DRUGS:

Diary ot an addict

L

2 BANG October 25th, 1986

PIRATES

BEWARE!

Pork scratching

MAKE IT

Tho pork-loving label s Ion Ellery look up tho pig taio
(flat* *l?i) "H s so different to all ttw ottwr kids' comica.

being to compieto an issuo ol Onk and attain a healthy
circulation Itgure. To do this you control the editor

WORLD SHUTS
ITS MOUTH . . .

MAIL ORDER firm Soltware World Is finished,

out ol business etc etc.

i be ol enoormous Inter
>m us to speak III of the
jltware World did not
exactly set any part ol the world on lire,

Commodorised

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4 BANG October 25th, 1986

NAUGHTY,

NAUGHTY

THE ADVERTISING Standards Authorily has
jumped down the Ihroals ol three computer
firms who have offended the great British
populace - well, some of It anyway.

The tno wno should've known bolter about
what to pul in their ads ate peripherals firm nx
T ronlcs, publishers Newsfield (the firm be
Crash, Zzap 64 and Amlix) and retail oulfi

the ASA kept up ns su

Spinnaker
spins over

over In Rligfilv, follnwinKu deal strut fc between those
funrlm Awlkm-mc .mil Spinnaker.

SSI. Arthur C Cljrkc and ferry Mason will be popping

MEdALUONCmm

INSTEAD OF boring/hippy/spotty/whizzkid/
genius-type chappies writing games Incentive
has launched a new label for "ordinary"
people's efforts.

It's called Medallion and has been sot up to

Apparently the firm kopl gelling slufl sent to it and
somo ol il was good enough for the big wido world
The first game on Medallion win be 77w Legend ol
Apache Gold II will appear on the three ma|ot formats
In November to bo followed by Winter Wonderland

f These were the best

Yet more
Commodore

NEVER ONES to gel left with old slock. Bools
has packed up its old C64s and adder! lots of
1 ‘ and (robs for Christmas.

he machine — now replaced by the re- vamped
— will be offered with a data recorder, Music
chine, Speech 64, Quickshol t joystick. fight
, Carries Book 1, a blank cassette and five

GO TO
BLAZES

40 COPIES OF
TRAILBLAZER
TO BE WON!

1986 5

■J !!■ / A YUPPIE GAMES publisher Virgin has signed

1 III f /I C f a deal which means Its products will soon be

/ III 1 rj | ) / available all over America

* * * * ^ ' The deal is with Electronic Arts — one of

/) MLDITA M SS"”"

H /I/f r If 111 I V Boss Nick AkivaiKlei told DANG Womakolrw

» llfl V f II 1 products over here, snip II lo Ihom and they Hog It all

. . - # . . The first games to appear Stateside will baSaadbls.

Ill I 1 / ill OanOaroandCfoado.

■ # f JLf fa f flf Ho claims Dan Dare will succeed even though Iho

If f #\ Iv II W comic Eagre la nol publlsliod In me US "Ho doesn't

* * moananyihingloihom ThoysayOanOoororDan

Wiur?lt'a the gamoplay and programming Iftal will

CONSOLE COMEBACK

It's her-pn per-
pa time: the
Swedes are
getting into
software.
STUART
DINSEY goes
Scandinavian •

bb8, Volvos and Bjorn

A Borg have all got one
thing in common.
They're Swedish and
just about manage to
beat the Bridlington Push
Chair Festival on the
interestometer
J That's a bit unfair (after all
they did give us the Muppets'

1 Swedish chef) but then Sweden
v invites ridicule This ie because to
| Joe Soap In Britain they're rich,
i blonde, funny talking, always

er fuel for ridicule than

Yankee takeover

you were naked to

S «,

.. Swotl

would you out t
t Otaftsensofteekborgsoft?

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SWEDE ALL ABOET IT

A

ARE YOU
B ORE?

aren't you? People lend lo yawn when you Ran
speaking? Others simply dnfteway, or suddenly Gnd
then fingor-pnnu doeply tasdnetlno? Vos, I know die
symptoms.

FOR I WAS A
Bm MYSELF!

Hard to believe dial Urn can he Bile, isn'l a? But U HI
For yoora. I wan dull - monumenaily boiino d mull
be told and u usually ia by mol on loll you because 1
alweye pride myself on being -
Sorry Short lapse

Anyway, so you're a bore, ehf Well. Die solution's simple

SOD OFT, BORE!

The complete cue
to boringneai ia

called BRNO. No
one who haa ever
read BANC fa)
boring. Everyone
who hasn't read It la

S BANG October

Last week Beyond admitted that its Star Trek game is
unlikely to appear before Christmas. This week
Paramount outlined plans for 24 new one hour TV
episodes of the great saga set a century later than the
days of Kirk & Co. and early Next Year, the fourth Film in
the sequence opens. Why is this Trek stuff so damn
popular? PHIL NUTMAN opens the Captain's Log.

Iter. Ms ii m ani i d Em lgn Boldly

' ,h * £££:*'""“* (thinking

about) going

Reason -
cheerful

n, to boldly go
I has gone liefore
ether you am an
rdent Star Trek
n (.1 Treklde'), a
ciencc fiction

Not only that. In the mid-
seventies. America's President
Geiald Ford actually named the
first space shuttle The Enterprise
after the spaceship from the IV

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10 BANG October 25th. 1986

BANGING

OFF

BANGING orr. II TMtaml Jol aoinathinfl lo say,
then send an ompty onvelop* anyway lo Dl X, c/o
BANGING OFF. BANC Borina borin® borinq bil ol
addreoa, Me flannel panel, Etcetcahlre

MORE

FILTH

AMERICA THE
BEAUTIFUL

REVIEWS

c+vc

BLUES

RANTING

motors. not abnstnx ’em — Ed. «*n refund to
employ rodents).

I’hmkUtuftVWU , |, , ,|y hriUbinl There dial's pu

JStmtXE*' SZ

mad 1. Mi Inc ruse whn quid • opirlKhl down

*'.L ^JLL P "T‘ ****" *"' Vf **r‘ 1 ’ “ "*

0j*

Kira — why dldn'l anyone else ihlnk ol iliatr
I've really only one proper compblnl: you lull roc all
the new things ihar are happening hui your gamrahave

deleted lo pmutt the moment —DrX) anddiul

heads In "dm h monthly pom this Inter you're ^

Oe rationally . Il happens lhal we hold on lo a
review unlll |usl before the name's available for

wllh other magazines dial Uiey bun* ’em early
Copies of names so that die reviews can lie quoled
In die ads when die names eventually appear.

up. Especially HANti Tile

only Ihmn limy ynur may Readers of a bitchy

''Twould like ■» lell there' wrmarniind IHI

anybody who lias yoMht apUllliUllIng ^

do^BohnandAirkMi ^'mSily inicllincin

iwenly quid 1 would alio readers will realise dial
tike lo praise MAG &oud old llakan die hack lias

BANG October 25th, 1986

WINNERS

ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS

WINNERS

BILLY BRAGG

BANGING OFF

Machine gun
etiquette . • ,

S22L

CAPTION
CONTEST

BALLS

Prize

fool!

HOW LOW
CAN YOU GET
ON HEROIN?

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Mental Problems

Skin Infections

HEROIN SCREWS YOU UR

14 BANG October 25th, 1 986

BANG October. 25th. 1986 IS

Nuff said

£27.95 on dak. Well worth

16 BANG October 25th, 1986

PHILIPS

The, ■6'vicHlty btfi or \{ he DS > I6? kwny a <i's turbwy effect.

18 BANG October 25th. 1986

Drugs kill -
why the software
industry set up the
Off The Hook char-
ity. Drugs kill -
that's why PAULINE
GARSDEN ol Off The
Hook has penned
this salutary tale
(with apologies to
Sue Adrian
Townsend)

w got wry vtnti wlmi

wismoctomm

lA/rnltolhclIulldln,

VV SorMytorthr
tvno lw„.l lonHvIMi,

LI .00, jfldhindKlnirj

fmw ociommn

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Uridium on the C64 topped the charts
early diis year, selling more in one month
than any previous C64 game. The long
awaited Spectrum conversion is finally
ready for launch. TONY HETHERINGTON is

Spectrum

Hewson

£7.95

Released — Oct
28th

20 BANG October 25th,

THE GREAT ESCAPE

Spectrum

Ocean

£ 7.95

pd by CRL. Dm uli
» pari of lb« prbi*.

BANG October 25b* -.wa

m.:

The smoothness of the
graphics and the
sensitivfty of the controls
makes it the kind of game
Wtych will get you hooked
very quickly vourcem B „t.r

Prnm what wo ve capi.

far, this is going to be big.
Available now!

October 25th, 1986

i-rrt. 11** .r V**

V\EW

BANG
REVIEWS

•

4

The BANG SEAL OF APPROVAL is on .

awarded to the best games. If you see this buy
it immediately.

»»

8ST FORWARD to

Check the commo

QD

le on BOLD The
i it that win spoil yo

€€€

There's something

GALVAN
IMAGINE/OCEAN
SPECTRUM
£7.95

Hey kids! Remember the arcade smash caled
Galvan by those aces of arcade action narrow that by tho time you i

Nitclubutsu?? barely !“>*■

1 guess both Galyan and ““•J.j' 1 ®

Nitchibutsu crept by unnoticed somewhe

hundreds of others. Either that t
the coin-op it's supposed to represent that it's
fooling all of us. Oh well, perhaps it was a che

from above and below only

Headed Demon' on each of the gamei

ULTRA VOX!
BILLY IDOL!

i October 25th, 1 986 23

A weird and wonderful little product, this. Full
of wit, predictable puns and devious
adventure elements — yet another in CRL's
growing list of excellent games.

Dr What Is at once a parody, an arcade
adventure, and a good time to be had by all.

Gamelot Warriors, then, with its simple
inlay, sparse instructions and almost a naked
screen display came as quite a surprise to me.
At first this actually looked quite appealing, an
arcade adventure with just screenfuls of
scrolling landscape — totally authentic and
nearly rather fascinating.

TRAPDOOR
C64, Amstrad

THRUST

Spectrum

£1.99

Firebird s chan-topping, C64, budget game
blasts onto the Spectrum.

r games for the price of one. That’s t
red in Durell’s BIG 4 pack of hits.

BANG October 25lh, 1966

E pyx/US Gold
Thalamus

Mastertronic

Firebird

Firebird

Maslertronic

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TELLY TOP TENS

■ October 25th. 1986

CHAFING THE PARTS BANG CANNOT REACH

TV* VIDEO* MUSIC* FILM*

Young Ones
nearly back

THE YOUNG ONES are back, Well sort ol.

Rik Mayall. Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planer
have teamed up once again lor another Beeb
comedy,

It's called Filthy . Rich and Catnap and will be on
your screens some lime next year /very helptul —
Ed). Mayall plays Rich, Edmondson Caltlap and
Planer Fillhy, but Ihero is no spol lor Chnstopher
Ryan — the actor who played ’boring" Mike in Ihe
gang’s Iasi sit-oom

My name's Ben Elton

Saturday Live 's stand up corned!
scriptwriter Ben Ellon Is writing tin new venture put It
seems that there the similarity will end

A boringly Hlersl spokesman tor the Boob told
BANG; 'It's got nothing to do with The Young Ones. "

Alexei Sayle

II Is also unlikely to feature Alexei Sayle although
knowing now dose Ihe ’alternative" sel work together
ihero aro bound to be appearances Iron people like
Paler Richardson. Down French, Jennifer Saunders
and Ben Ellon himsett

Filthy, Rich and Catnap has only lust gone Into
production so veiy lintels'

FOLD

LONDON TOP TEN

1 (1) TOP GUN

2 (4) ABOUT LAST NIGHT

3 (3) MONA LISA

4 (2) ALIENS

5 (-) BASIL THE GREAT MOUSE

DETECTIVE

6 (5) A ROOM WITH A VIEW

7 (7) HANNAH AND HER SISTERS

8 (6) BETTY BLUE

9 (8) F/X — MURDERBYILLUSION
10 (9) HIGHLANDER

7 =

RENTAL TOP 20

1 (1) DEATH WISH 3 loakutonwy

2 (-) TEEN WOLF

3 (2) NO RETREAT NO

SURRENDER n

4 (4) GOONIES ,vwn«t

5 (5) PROTECTOR

6 (6) NIGHTMARE ON ELM

STREET ,cb*rox,

7 (3) RAMBO - FIRST BLOOD

PART 2 tcnrne,

8 (-) PRIZZIS HONOUR

9 (7) LEGEND <

10 (15) GREMLINS iw.™,

1 1 (9) COCOON ,i imoxi

12 (12) GOTCHA,,!.,

13 (8) RETURN OF THE LIVING

DEAD Venom

14 (-) YEAR OF THE DRAGON

15 (14) WEIRD SCIENCE

16 (17) WITNESS ..-ic,

17 (13) FLETCH mo

18 (22) GHOSTBUSTERS

19 (10) D.A.R.Y.L. ' IlC-VCoker

20 (21) PALE RIDER

(3) ALCHEMY LIVE ,cn.™, s ,

DIRE STRAITS

(4) BROTHERS IN ARMS

DIRE STRAITS

4 (2) N0WTHATS...MUSIC7 >ui worm

VARIOUS

5 151 No.1 VIDEO HITS (RCATCon

WHITNEY HOUSTON

6 (9i WE WILL ROCK YOU .*!**)

OUEEN

7 (6) LIVE IN RIO iPMh

OUEEN

o it oi THE VIRGIN TOUR, wfa,

9 LUXURY OF UFE (RCACokenbla)

FIVE STAR

10 odGREATESTFLIXipmi,

OUEEN

11 it 3i SPECIAL FROM

SPECTRUM Po^m

12 (16)

i THE VIDEO

I ices/rox)

13 (i4) GREATEST HITS (RCArCdumtM

BUCKS FIZZ

14 ( 18) VIDEO REWIND !V«aen,

THE ROLLING STONES

is i -) MAKING OF THRILLER n***

MICHAEL JACKSON

16 ci UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY

(VlrgeVPVG)

IB

17 (.5) VIDEO EP ,PM„

FREDDIE MERCURY

18 (rei WAKE (Polygram)

SISTERS OF MERCY

19 ( -> FAREWELL CONCERT ,***»,

CREAM

20 ii9) HITS 1980-1988 icesrpox)

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This means
nothing to me

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